30 Best Winter Quotes to Help You Celebrate the Holiday Season

They don't call it "the most wonderful time of the year" for nothing! Here, we're sharing the all-time best winter quotes with you in the hopes that you'll be able to relish in the beauty and tranquility of the season. Whether you're looking for some inspiration for a thoughtful Christmas Instagram caption, on the hunt for an original Christmas card message, or simply want to share one of these inspiring sayings with friends and family on your upcoming Polar Express ride, there's bound to be something here that speaks to you. Of course, you don't need a reason to appreciate the season. Showing our gratitude for Mother Nature is something we should do every day, regardless of the circumstances or time of year. Fr0m the profound winter quotes (“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold," says Aristotle) to the funny winter quotes (take, for instance, “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship" from The Book Thief) and a few classic holiday-inspired ones to read out loud at Christmas dinner, we've got a quote or winter saying for just about everyone. Should you need a little extra inspiration though, you might want to check out our very favorite Christmas quotes!

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Albert Camus

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is time for home."

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George R.R. Martin

"Nothing burns like the cold."

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Italian Proverb

"They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter."

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

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John Steinbeck

"What good is the warm of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

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Elizabeth Bowen

"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."

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John Burnside

“Snow isn’t just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a mining town, but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.”

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Nancy Hatch Woodward

“Snow brings a special quality with it—the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.”

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Aristotle

“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”

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Rachel Cohn

“I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas. It brings people together while time stands still.”

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Anamika Mishra

“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.”

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Lama Willa

"The snow is sparkling like a million little suns."

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Carol Rifka Brunt

"There's just something beautiful about walking in snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you're special."

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Andy Goldsworthy

"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood."

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Antoinette Van Kleef

"When snow falls, nature listens."

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Kahlil Gibran

"Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers."

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Edmund Hillary

"Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow."

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Unknown

"Snowflakes are kisses from heaven."

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J.B. Priestley

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different."

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Markus Zusak

"A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship."

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Lara Biyuts

"The first snow is like the first love. Do you remember your first snow?"

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Unknown

"When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels."

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Susan Orlean

"A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky—unbidden—and seems like a thing of wonder."

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William Hamilton Gibson

"Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem."

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Novala Takemoto

"Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity."

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Sara Coleridge

"January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow."

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Unknown

"A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!"

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